So today was my first lesson doing nothing but circuits.
"What is a circuit?" you non-aviation types may be asking yourselves...well, it's basically a big roundabout. It's the pattern you keep to when you're doing take-offs and landings so that people can predict where you're going to be and what height you'll be flying at based on your radio calls so you don't bump into each other.
Today was better than yesterday in some ways, much the same in others. I was doing better with my "downwind" checks and set up, but still tending to come in high on "final". I was still tense about it all, maybe more so than yesterday because I didn't get the release of laughing at myself for being a knob/noob. It is somewhat hard to judge your own progress and I was flying with a different instructor today so there wasn't any feedback on progress from him, unfortunately.
My lesson lasted 0.8 hours or 48 minutes. It seems at once to be a very short and long period of time. I'm not sure I've been quite as challenged and exhausted by 48 minutes of non-physical activity in years. It's the good kind of challenge and exhaustion - the kind that makes you feel like your brain is working, even if for only 48 minutes a day!
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